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Katherine Boo wins 2013 PEN Literary Award

Congratulations to Katherine Boo, whose stunning work of narrative nonfiction, Behind the Beautiful Forevers, has just been awarded the 2013 PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award. The prize is given to the author of a ‘distinguished book of general nonfiction possessing notable literary merit and critical perspective and illuminating important contemporary issues’.

The runner-up was Donovan Hohn’s Moby Duck, which we published in August 2011. More information, and a list of all the winners, can be seen here.